2. There's a war escalating in both Los Angeles and the Bay Area: restaurants versus food trucks. This week LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold penned an op-ed in the LA Times calling on the city to reject new proposed restrictions on mobile food vendors. Meanwhile, SFoodie editor John Birdsall found that Emeryville, which has been one of the most hospitable Bay Area cities for food trucks, is now considering implementing new restrictions, prodded by four local brick-and-mortar businesses who say the trucks are causing them to lose money.